Contact Dr Yang Xing
Areas of expertise
- Autonomous Systems
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Ergonomics, Human Factors, Driver Safety
- Human Factors
- Systems Engineering
- Vehicle Engineering & Mobility
Background
Dr. Yang Xing received his Ph.D. degree from Cranfield University in July 2018. He also holds an MSc degree (with distinction) in Control Systems from the University of Sheffield in 2014. Before joining Cranfield University in 2021, Dr Yang Xing worked as a research associate with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford from 2020 to 2021, and a research fellow with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at Nanyang Technological University from 2019 to 2020. His research interest focus on artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, human-autonomy collaboration, and autonomous vehicles, where he has contributed 2 books and over 80 papers (including 2 ESI highly cited papers) on high-quality peer-review journals and conferences.
Dr. Yang Xing serves as an Associate Editor in IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Vehicles, and Review Editor in Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. He was a Guest Editor-in-Chief/Editor in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, and IEEE Intelligent Transportation Magazine, etc. He was session chair/co-chair on IEEE SWC 2023, IEEE MFI 2022, IEEE SMC 2020, IFAC Workshop on CPHS 2020, and IEEE IV 2018, etc. He won the Best Workshop/Special Session Paper on IEEE IV 2018 and Best Paper on China National Intelligence Technology Conference 2019.
Research opportunities
Currently I'm particular focus on the following research areas:
1. Cognitive human-autonomy collaboration and teaming.
2. Computer vision for human activity recognition (HAR) and autonomous vehicles (including segmentation, object diction, and visual augmentation).
3. Application of machine learning/deep learning in autonomous vehicles (air/ground).
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Chen L, Li Y, Huang C, Xing Y, Tian D, Li L, Hu Z, Teng S, Lv C, Wang J, Cao J, Zheng N & Wang F-Y (2023) Milestones in autonomous driving and intelligent vehicles - Part 1: control, computing system design, communication, HD map, testing, and human behaviors, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 53 (9) 5831-5847.
- Chen L, Li Y, Huang C, Li B, Xing Y, Tian D, Li L, Hu Z, Na X, Li Z, Teng S, Lv C, Wang J, Cao D, Zheng N & Wang F-Y (2023) Milestones in autonomous driving and intelligent vehicles: survey of surveys, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 8 (2) 1046-1056.
- Hu J, Xu G, Hu L, Li S & Xing Y (2023) An adaptive energy efficient MAC protocol for RF energy harvesting WBANs, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 71 (1) 473-484.
- Hu Z, Xing Y, Gu W, Cao D & Lv C (2023) Driver anomaly quantification for intelligent vehicles: a contrastive learning approach with representation clustering, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 8 (1) 37-47.
- Mo X, Xing Y, Liu H & Lv C (2023) Map-adaptive multimodal trajectory prediction using hierarchical graph neural networks [Letter], IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8 (6) 3685-3692.
- Xing Y, Golodetz S, Everitt A, Markham A & Trigoni N (2022) Multiscale human activity recognition and anticipation network, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Available online 27 May 2022.
- Lv C, Hang P, Xing Y, Nguyen A-T & Jolfaei A (2022) Guest editorial: Decision making and control for connected and automated vehicles, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 16 (12, Special Issue: Decision making and control for connected and) 1665-1668.
- Bian T, Xing Y & Zolotas A (2022) End-to-end one-shot path-planning algorithm for an autonomous vehicle based on a convolutional neural network considering traversability cost, Sensors, 22 (24) Article No. 9682.
- Yang L, Lu C, Xiong G, Xing Y & Gong J (2022) A hybrid motion planning framework for autonomous driving in mixed traffic flow, Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation, 1 (3) Article No. 100022.
- Hu X, Lou S, Xing Y, Wang X, Cao D & Lv C (2022) Review and perspectives on driver digital twin and its enabling technologies for intelligent vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 7 (3) 417-440.
- Hu Z, Zhang Y, Xing Y, Li Q & Lv C (2022) An integrated framework for multi-state driver monitoring using heterogeneous loss and attention-based feature decoupling, Sensors, 22 (19) Article No. 7415.
- Li W, Tan R, Xing Y, Li G, Li S, Zeng G, Wang P, Zhang B, Su X, Pi D, Guo G & Cao D (2022) A multimodal psychological, physiological and behavioural dataset for human emotions in driving tasks, Scientific Data, 9 (1) Article No. 481. Dataset/s: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5744171
- Mo X, Huang Z, Xing Y & Lv C (2022) Multi-agent trajectory prediction with heterogeneous edge-enhanced graph attention network, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23 (7) 9554-9567.
- Li W, Zeng G, Zhang J, Xu Y, Xing Y, Zhou R, Guo G, Shen Y, Cao D & Wang F-Y (2022) CogEmoNet: A cognitive-feature-augmented driver emotion recognition model for smart cockpit, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 9 (3) 667-678.
- Yang L, Semiromi MB, Xing Y, Lv C, Brighton J & Zhao Y (2021) The identification of non-driving activities with associated implication on the take-over process, Sensors, 22 (1) Article No. 42.
- Xing Y, Lv C, Cao D & Velenis E (2021) Multi-scale driver behavior modeling based on deep spatial-temporal representation for intelligent vehicles, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 130 (September) Article No. 103288.
- Hang P, Lv C, Huang C, Xing Y & Hu Z (2021) Cooperative decision making of connected automated vehicles at multi-lane merging zone: a coalitional game approach, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Available online 2 April 2021 (4).
- Liu T, Xing Y, Tang X, Wang H, Yu H & Wang F (2021) Cyber-physical-social system for parallel driving: from concept to application, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 13 (1) 59-69.
- Hu Z, Lv C, Hang P, Huang C & Xing Y (2021) Data-driven estimation of driver attention using calibration-free eye gaze and scene features, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Available online 9 February 2021 (2).
- Hang P, Huang C, Hu Z, Xing Y & Lv C (2021) Decision making of connected automated vehicles at an unsignalized roundabout considering personalized driving behaviours, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 70 (5) 4051-4064.
- Hang P, Lv C, Xing Y, Huang C & Hu Z (2021) Human-like decision making for autonomous driving: a noncooperative game theoretic approach, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 22 (4) 2076-2087.
- Xing Y (2021) Human-machine adaptive shared control for safe driving under automation degradation, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, Available online 01 April 2021 (2).
- Xing Y, Lv C, Cao D & Hang P (2021) Toward human-vehicle collaboration: Review and perspectives on human-centered collaborative automated driving, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 128 (July) Article No. 103199.
- Huang C, Chen L, Hang P & Xing Y (2021) Toward safe and personalized autonomous driving: decision-making and motion control with DPF and CDT techniques, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 26 (2) 611-620.
- Xing Y, Lv C, Wang H, Wang H, Ai Y, Cao D, Velenis E & Wang F-Y (2019) Driver lane change intention inference for intelligent vehicles: framework, survey, and challenges, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 68 (5) 4377-4390.
- Lv C, Xing Y, Zhang J, Na X, Li Y, Liu T, Cao D & Wang FY (2018) Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation training of multilayer neural networks for state estimation of a safety critical cyber-physical system, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14 (8) 3436-3446.
- Xing Y, Lv C, Zhang Z, Wang H, Na X, Cao D, Velenis E & Wang F-Y (2018) Identification and analysis of driver postures for in-vehicle driving activities and secondary tasks recognition, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 5 (1) 95-108.
- Lv C, Xing Y, Lu C, Liu Y, Guo H, Gao H & Cao D (2018) Hybrid-learning-based classification and quantitative inference of driver braking intensity of an electrified vehicle, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 67 (7) 5718-5729.
- Xing Y, Lv C, Wang H, Cao D, Velenis E & Wang F (2018) Advances in vision-based lane detection: algorithms, integration, assessment, and perspectives on ACP-based parallel vision, IEEE Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica, 5 (3) 645-661.
- Xing Y, Lv C, Wang H, Cao D & Velenis E (2018) Dynamic integration and online evaluation of vision-based lane detection algorithms, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 13 (1) 55-62.
- Zhao Y, Xing Y, Xing Y, Lv C, Cao D & Wang H (2018) Driver workload estimation using a novel hybrid method of error reduction ratio causality and support vector machine, Measurement, 114 (January) 390-397.
Conference Papers
- Fraser B, Copp B, Singh G, Keyvan O, Bian T, Sonntag V, Xing Y, Guo W & Tsourdos A (2022) Reducing viral transmission through AI-based crowd monitoring and social distancing analysis. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI 2022), Cranfield, 20-22 September 2022.
- Osigbesan A, Barrat S, Singh H, Xia D, Singh S, Xing Y, Guo W & Tsourdos A (2022) Vision-based fall detection in aircraft maintenance environment with pose estimation. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI 2022), Cranfield, 20-22 September 2022.
- Yang X, Lv C, Cao D, Velenis E & Wang F (2018) End-to-end driving activities and secondary tasks recognition using deep convolutional neural network and transfer learning. In: 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Changshu, Suzhou, 26-30 June 2018.
- Xing Y, Lv C, Huaji W, Wang H & Cao D (2017) Recognizing driver braking intention with vehicle data using unsupervised learning methods. In: WCX17: SAE World Congress Experience, Detroit, 4-6 April 2017.
